Category Archives: Quilts & Quilting

Soggy Saturday Surprises

I woke up this morning to find Peace, Love, Pi featured on Geek Crafts! With March 14 (3-14, get it?!) just around the corner, Peace, Love, Pi makes a perfect project for “Pi Day.”

Check out the Geek Crafts post here.

NEW and by popular request, Pi is available as a single pattern for just $2 on Craftsy!

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It’s bucketing down rain today in Austin, which is good news for us as we slowly climb out of severe drought. I’m hoping for a green spring and NO fires.

The rainy day has put our Saturday plans on the back burner. Instead, I’m going to spend my day cleaning and rearranging my sewing space. It’s time to purge things I don’t foresee myself using and tidy up those things I need easy access, too.

My cutting table is also a wibbly wobbly mess and I’m planning to swap it out with another table that will be re-purposed from another area of our house. Fingers crossed that it goes well and I’ll be back to stitching in a couple of days!

Carol, the winner of the free PDF pattern from my Learning Center post earlier in the week, chose Stellar Stripes as her prize. Carol, I hope you enjoy and can’t wait to see your version!

Reminders:

In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.

Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day Garden Party Blog Hop

The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome free paper pieced patterns with you! I’ve already seen several of the blocks and they are all fantastic…just you wait!

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Quilting Types and Styles on The Learning Center

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Talk to Me Tuesday is on the way, but while you wait, I wanted to let you know about a fun opportunity I recently had. Pat Sloan, host of The Learning Center (among many other awesome things!), invited me to write up a little piece explaining what paper pieced quilts are.

Well, how exciting!

Keeping it short was a challenge, but I managed. As you all know, I have loads to say on the subject!

The Learning Center is part of Quilting Gallery, one of my favorite quilt web sites, and is a great resource for quilters to learn all there is to know about quilts. There are new posts regularly and lots of great information!

Check out today’s post and then come back here and let me know what you think. My favorite comment will win a free PDF pattern of their choice! Winner announced Friday, March 9!

Just in case you missed it…Quilting Types and Styles!

Reminders:

In honor of my participation in the STITCHED Tutorial Blog Hop, get 15% off your TOTAL PURCHASE from the Sewhooked Shop during the month of March with coupon code MARCH15. Not valid on etsy or craftsy.

The Paper Pieced Pattern-A-Day blog hop is coming April 1, 2012! We have a full compliment of designers ready to share awesome free paper pieced patterns with you!

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free! (Craftsy Shop)

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

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Inside The Closet

Show Me The Money!

One Little Turtle

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Executive decision! You need a free pattern today.

Specifically, a free turtle pattern!

>>> One Little Turtle <<<

5″ paper pieced

(5 1/2″ unfinished)

I love turtles. There is just something about the way they look and move. They have always seemed serious and dignified to me.

I have a turtle niece named Frankie (above, sister to the famous Lily), and I myself have a small collection that includes hand-carved turtles, glass turtles, crochet ones, fabric ones and even some turtle jewelry. There’s even a possibility (a big one!) that I have a fair amount of turtle fabric in my stash!

One Little Turtle is an updated version of my original Turtle Pattern, still available on the Free Quilt Pattern page.

I hope you enjoy him!

This is a turtle I made several years ago from of a vintage toy pattern. He’s made entirely out of scrap fabrics. I call him Turkle!

How about a fun layout using One Little Turtle that I whipped up using EQ7 . Isn’t it fun?

Or, how about a table runner?

If turtles aren’t your thing, I had a pattern debut today on Fandom In Stitches…a 1967 Impala, inspired by the t.v. show Supernatural!

Don’t miss my newest Sewhooked Shop pattern, Ready To Play!

Reminder: Use coupon code QUILTMYPHONE in the Sewhooked Shop to receive the Floating Mariner instant download PDF pattern for half price as an instant PDF download with PayPal payment – completely secure shopping through E-junkie. This price is only good right here on Sewhooked during the month of February.

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free pattern page free! (Craftsy Shop)

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

I hope you’re having a great weekend!

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It’s awfully quiet in here…

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You might have noticed in yesterday’s Talk To Me Tuesday that I didn’t actually show anything that I’m working on.

Ehem.

There’s a mighty fine reason for that. I’ve been working on something I can’t show off just yet. In fact, I will need the all-clear from someone else before I share it.

Is that vague enough for you?

This photo is a teeny tiny sneak peek.

That’s it…I really can’t say anything else!

Back to hand stitching a hanging sleeve.

Oh, oh, could that be a clue?!

You can now get all my for-pay patterns via instant PDF download through Craftsy! They charge nothing, nada, zero for independent designers like me to post and sell their patterns. Having had an online store for almost two years now, let me tell you, free is not usually the way it works! It’s been hugely helpful for the teeny tiny Sewhooked budget, and if it continues to go well, there is a possibility that I will start selling my patterns exclusively through Craftsy.

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free patterns free. (Craftsy Shop)

Add your Sewhooked-related photos to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

Happy Stitching!

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Huzzah!

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The Free Quilt Pattern page is finally, finally updated!

It took me all day to make it behave and do just what I wanted, including adding spiffy navigation on the page itself. Please take a few minutes to check it out…I’d love to hear your feedback!

The Free Quilt Pattern page now includes:

Free Patterns by myself and Guest Designers
Difficulty Ratings
Bigger Pictures
A menu at the top of the page
“Top of Page” links between each section
Blog links for individual blocks (in progress!)
Links to my free patterns on other sites
Images and Patterns automatically open in a new page

Shop Sewhooked and help keep the free patterns free!

Add your Sewhooked-related photos (that includes my patterns posted to Fandom In Stitches!) to my flickr group and you might be featured in a future post!

Have a wonderful afternoon!

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I ❤ That!

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Nine Hearts

I’ve said it before… I’m a sucker for hearts!

On this lovely February Friday, I bring to you an updated collection of my paper pieced heart patterns, including 1.5″ sets for my Valentine tutorial, one newly un-retired pattern, an “I love you” (or two!) and one newbie thrown in!

New – 1.5″ heart sets, created especially for Make A Mini-Valentine!

Each sheet in this set has 12 – 1.5″ patterns for making the card in the Make A Mini-Valentine tutorial.

Includes Scrappy Heart and A Simple Heart. Click for the set.

Log Cabin Heart (5″) New!

Less Than Three (5″) Updated!

Scrappy Heart 2 (5″) Updated!

Braided Heart (5″)

A Simple Heart (5″)

Scrappy Heart (5″) Updated!

Heart with a Cause (6″)

The Linus Connection Heart (5″)

Broken Heart (5″) Updated!

multi heart quilt layout

A fun layout created in EQ7 using several of the blocks shown in this post.

ASL “I love you” (6″)

Look for changes to be coming soon to the Free Pattern page! As I update old favorite patterns and continue to add new ones, I’m working to make the page easier for you to navigate and easier for me to update. Included on the free pattern page, you will also find great free patterns that other designers have allowed me to share with you as well as my free patterns available on other websites!

If you like my free patterns, please consider supporting my site by visiting my Craftsy Pattern Shop where you will find block patterns, project patterns and pattern sets, all designed by me!

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Fat Quarterly Is Here!

Braided Kaleidoscope

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In recent weeks, I’ve been dubbed Teasing McTeaser by a good friend of mine.

You see, I keep dropping hints in my blog and on Talk To Me Tuesday (TTMT for short) that I have would have something super awesome to share soon.

Finally, today, NOW, I get to share one of those awesome things! Yes, I said one…there will be more surprises in the weeks (and months!) to come!

Braided Kaleidoscope

I designed a brand new 12″ paper pieced block for Fat Quarterly, a fantastic Ezine for quilters!

Issue 8 – Paper, is where you will find Braided Kaleidoscope (pg 29 & 30). Paper Piecing, English Paper Piecing and Freezer Paper all make an appearance and all the projects are just fantastic!

Subscribers can access their issue today, and it will be available for sale to non-subscribers on Monday. You can see the full (and very talented!) list of contributors right here.

Last, but definitely NOT least, I have super-duper-awesome news about STITCHED! All workshops will now be available for a full year. That’s right, six more months of workshop awesomeness, giveaways and access to fabulous STITCHED instructors, including yours truly! If you’ve been hesitant to sign up for STITCHED, don’t be, because it’s a fantastically fun site full of wonderful workshops and community!

Have a very, very happy Friday!

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